{"id":239003,"date":"2026-06-30T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/consumers-need-protection-from-ai-agents-lawmaker-says\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:25:10","slug":"consumers-need-protection-from-ai-agents-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/consumers-need-protection-from-ai-agents-lawmaker-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers need protection from AI agents, lawmaker says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-agent-act-bill-mark-warner\/\">Consumers need protection from AI agents, lawmaker says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-agent-act-bill-mark-warner\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-agent-act-bill-mark-warner\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 15:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbsnews.com\">www.cbsnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Mark Warner is proposing a new draft bill called the AI Agent Act to regulate AI agents, also known as autonomous bots, which assist with tasks such as booking trips and online shopping.<\/li>\n<li>The bill aims to establish rights and responsibilities for AI agents accessing large online platforms, ensuring they act in the best interests of users.<\/li>\n<li>The proposed legislation includes creating a Federal Trade Commission registry of trusted AI agents to protect consumers&#8217; personal information.<\/li>\n<li>The draft bill emphasizes the need for AI agents to act responsibly, requiring them to safeguard users&#8217; privacy, protect collected data, and not exploit businesses.<\/li>\n<li>The use of AI-powered shopping assistants is projected to account for up to $385 billion of U.S. e-commerce sales by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Warner is releasing the draft for feedback from stakeholders and the public before formally introducing it to Congress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers need protection from AI agents, lawmaker says https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-agent-act-bill-mark-warner\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-30 15:22:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/30\/9fe24728-edeb-4bdc-a333-cf53a851f9f1\/thumbnail\/1200x630\/6aa8deb651861553e648c252c070f1b9\/screenshot-2026-06-30-at-2-02-44-pm.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239005,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239003\/revisions\/239005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}